منابع مشابه
Ivory anatomical manikins.
REPRESENTATIONS OF the human body have been sculptured since prehistoric times, for then our forebears fashioned small female figures with exaggerated breasts and hips. The sculptors of Greece and Rome made commonplace the form of gods, heroes and prominent citizens which were used to decorate public places and buildings. Wealthy patrons of the arts collected statues and statuettes of bronze or...
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Two African states, Tanzania and Zambia, are seeking to change the ban on trade in ivory at the meeting next month of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Qatar. But the countries face a battle, because other states, such as Kenya and Mali, are strongly opposed to any change and have been lobbying the EU in Brussels this month to support a block to any chan...
متن کاملNew ivory worries
Species (Cites) in 1989, to halt the steep decline in elephant numbers. “Wild elephant populations were decimated by the ivory trade. By the time the 1989 Cites ban came into force, Africa’s elephants had been reduced by more than 50 per cent,” says Mark Jones, programmes director at Care for the Wild, an international wildlife charity which commissioned the mammoth ivory report. “Poaching cont...
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Despite the 1989 ivory trade ban, elephants continue to be killed to harvest their tusks for ivory. Since 2008, this poaching has increased to unprecedented levels driven by consumer demand for ivory products. CITES is now considering the development of a legal ivory trade [1, 2]. The proposal relies on three assumptions: (1) harvest regulation will cease all illegal activities, (2) defined sus...
متن کاملIvory Osteoma Of Temporal Bone
Osteomas are slow growing bony tumors common in fronto-ethmoid regions and rare in temporal bone. These are usually asymptomatic and require treatment mainly for cosmetic reasons. We describe a case of temporal bone osteoma in a female.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1960
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591576005300913